A Purveyor of Truth: The Writer's Life

November 5, 2014 12:34 PM

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This will be a three part series, examining creativity, which in this writer's mind, has been extremely malnourished in today's world. The first two pieces examines the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky, the great Russian novelist.

Fyodor Dostoevsky was born to a family of strict religious devotion. Dostoevsky imbibed much of this zealotry; yet he also fiercely questioned it. From his earlier piece, Notes from the Underground to the seminal -- and last work -- The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky battled his notion of the mundan...